Posts by Truth4u 396 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Sep 2013
What a clever idea to unify the search so you have one box to find files and applications, because once you're using it, they have you by the balls to insert any kind of junk advertising they want into the results. And that's exactly what they've done.
Used to be an ubuntu fan but there's nothing cool about an OS that shows adverts.
they should work harder if they want food and water.
cameron says there are enough jobs for everyone, and i believe him. he says everyone who wants a job can get one, if this means getting a zero hour contract as a part time cleaner 300 miles away then you do that because you dont DESERVE any better, scum.
Any advice for would be squatters? Tonight I'm going to write a list of .london domains I want to squat. How do I submit them all 1 second after they go on sale? ideally less than a second. 100ms is probably too much. There must be an interesting technical solution to this important problem.
I don't know what's funnier, the fact that they charge for the setting to be changed, or the fact that energy profiles in windows make no appreciable difference to energy usage anyway.
And besides running disks all the time makes them last longer so yeah I'll pay the power bill if it'll save me £100 on hard drives. I'm not busting my balls to save 5 pence on an energy bill even if the glaciers are melting. And the weather is nicer now anyway.
The corporate state, of which Apple is a dominant player, doesn't think too highly of freedom of expression unless what you express is nothing but a shameless fixation on money and possessions. In 20 years live gigs will be illegal because Apple will pay the judges to rule that live music infringes on their god given right to make money from other people's recorded music.
Similarly, it will also be illegal to operate a bedroom recording studio, because you cannot be trusted to produce the right kind of "message" for the consumer populace.
If you want folk music, Apple will be happy to pay some charlatan a lot of money to make music in a folk style, but with a pro-corporate consumerist message to replace the pro-family, pro-property rights message that the corporatocracy finds so distasteful.
Some guy with an acoustic guitar saying how much he likes buying the new iPod, the DJs will play what they're payed to play
in 10 years we will have cochlear implants for everyone but they will have wifi and 500gb of flash. apple will be the trendy company that uses a gun to shoot it into your head and for a small subscription of all your salary, you can sync with the iCloud and get any kind of music you want as long as its top 40 pop.
algo trading is so important and amazing that the stocks being traded are irrelevant. might as well shut down apple and exxon and dutch royal shell and send the employees home but continue to trade the stocks at ever increasing prices because who cares right? If the computer says you're rich then it must be true. If you can sell facebook stock then why go to the trouble of inventing facebook in the first place? I have a new website called mostpopularwebsite-co that i want to sell for billions, and if your algorithm can double the price in 3 days then we all win right? Why would I even need to hire staff or buy servers when the stock exchange is run by computers that don't buy my products anyway?
Woah slow down there Buck Rogers, you want to make the planet more secure? Like x-raying my junk when I travel and shit like that? Leave it out.
Maybe they're going to release a portable perv scanner, but what to call it? I'm speaking to their consultant now and for $50million he can tell me the first letter of the name will be i. I told him I would write a cheque.
I was on a team that set up (unpacked) 500 Dell desktops at a new school and every one of them had the mouse double bagged and cable tied and boxed separately. Why is this? By the time we finished, there was so much plastic and polystyrene and cardboard floating around that the site manager had to tell us off for not making more of an effort to fit it all into the industrial sized skip (I say skip but it was one of the ones you get in recycling sites, at least 4 times bigger than a skip). of course all that crap is light and blows straight out again but Dell doesn't give a shit, they could have sent us a box of 500 mice and even saved money but no they hate the environment so much that they would rather eat into their profit margins to help destroy it.
Had to give a thumbs up to counter the 7 thumbs down as the globalists are planning to replace all jobs with bots and machine intelligence by 2035, and no we won't be allowed to live a life of leisure in a post-work society, most of us (90+ %) will be killed with weaponised ebola.
Only the globalists will have received a clean vaccine. Leaked documents have repeatedly showed that health workers and emergency services will be vaccinated against the ebola but will receive a time delayed cancer virus in their vaccine to kill them after the host population has died and after they have done their job of cleaning up the dead bodies.
The globalists will be the only ones allowed to enjoy a life of leisure in a post-work society, this is what they have been planning at their annual Bilderberg meetings for over SIXTY YEARS, they have the money and the expertise to do it, and most of the plans are going through the final stages of review. They have war gamed this from every angle and even if it doesn't work or they get caught, they have enough food and water in their bunkers (read luxury underground palaces) that they could start a nuclear war and live underground with their rich disgusting friends for the next 300 years.
they were selling the ipod as a premium product costing many hundred dollars but the battery was lasting 7 months and then their official advice was to buy a new iPod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#iPod_battery_life_class_action
Needless to say I feel pretty damn smug for never having owned one.
It's un-enticing because its so fucking expensive. Put down the gold leaf toilet paper and realise not everyone can pay 300% the market rate for a hard drive, especially when you usually need to buy 2. Once again Apple has taken a technology that already had a huge Intel-markup on it and put the huge Apple-markup on top of that. Oh good now if I sell my house I can buy like 5 thunderbolt drives with the money.... such good value for money, no?
Let's see if a month of being called into work at random times of the day to suit the whims of his employer gets his creative juices flowing. And then when he gets paid less than his rent, the pressure will surely lead to a creative masterpiece. Or maybe not.
They're aiming it at people who want small speakers so lots of money has to be spent on things like automatic EQ to make it sound as though the speakers were bigger. A cheaper way to do this is to build the speakers bigger in the first place but then the wives and girlfriends out there wouldn't let people buy them anyway.
They're very anemic old AMDs so no AV software, that would use more resources than the music software I'm trying to run. Probably not going to do anything different come April although the machines are online and on my home network. What's the worst that could happen? Even if I got ransomeware, the CPUs are so crap, they would take years to encrypt the 3TB of stuff I have on my network. Do you not think I would notice something going wrong way before I even lost 5% of my stuff? My fileserver is linux on a powerpc chip, I could download XP malware onto that thing all day long, you'd never get it to actually run on there. So why should I care?
4k screen + network attached tuner. Lovely.
Just waiting for them to come down in price, then hopefully I can get a good one that will last decades.
As for TV, even formerly decent shows are dumbing down. I think the competent members of the production teams are retiring and being replaced with first year media studies students from the current generation of McUniversity courses. Can't think of another explanation for the sudden and obvious drop in quality. At least on the BBC where most people surely must be reaching retirement age by now.
I think they're going to replace the old crew members on £200k/pa with kids on £15k and spend the change on something utterly vacuous like F1 coverage no doubt. Not that I approve of the money being wasting in either fashion.
"only the paranoid use lightbulbs... the intelligent use FL bulbs or LED bulbs.. "
That's where you're wrong my friend. A small circuit, about the size of a 10 pence piece, can be included in any LED bulb to modulate the LED flicker rate with the output of a microphone. Aim a solar cell at a lit up window and hook it to your scope: guess what? You can hear everything going on in that room. Not science fiction but science fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hliHBeC1sco
CCFLs don't last a year in my place. Always the electronics that fail... maybe I get more spikes, and the voltage is a little on the high side of the normal range. Measured at over 240v on a DMM. The incandescent bulbs are even worse, lasting a month at most, sometimes I've had them fail the day after installation. All domestic lighting products are of extremely poor quality these days. Whatever type you get it was made in china a dozen to the penny and sold at over 1,000 % markup. It's just a fact.
"when the filament temperature of a severely undervolted incandescent lightbulb comes up"
less voltage = better for environment.
I run all my bulbs severely undervolted on a 120 volt isolation transformer so I can get into heaven for using less volts therefore less carbon. QED.
and because energy is really cheap for everyone but domestic users who have to pay an inflated price to foreign energy companies for the sole benefit of their share holders (not the environment).
I wonder if Google has to phone up EDF and beg not to be cut off during winter? And they use enough energy to heat every elderly persons home on earth.
"they are just myths that can only be believed by people who don't know any of the science involved."
Next you'll be telling me that there's a good reason they use capacitors filled with cats urine instead of properly designed ones that can run twice as hot for twice as long.
"they consume because newer products offer more than the existing equipment, or because the old stuff has worn out."
Do you not understand that the old stuff was designed to wear out? Lightbulbs, nylon tights, razor blades, can all be made to last years or decades using 1920s technology. There is a lightbulb in america that's been burning for over 100 years. Then the Phoebus cartel was set up to limit bulb life to 1000 hours and we've been sliding into tyranny ever since.
LCD sets that don't fail from physical damage almost always fail from poor quality capacitors in the power supply which can be cheaply replaced to create a fully working set. Manufacturers know this and their contribution is to make the cases hard to open so you can't save yourself £500.
Exactly.
There was a brief period where CRTs were cheaper than hard drives, I used to use them for backups. Just leave your document open 48 hours then it was permanently stored on the screen.
In the end I found that storing CRTs in the basement was a very cost effective way to manage our backups, and was promoted for saving the company over a million dollars. My replacement was burning CRTs all the way up to 1998. Good times.
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